diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e15f953e2..d787a77aa 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "third-party/SDL"]
-	path = third-party/SDL
-	url = https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL
-	shallow = true
 [submodule "third-party/fmt"]
 	path = third-party/fmt
 	url = https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt.git
@@ -55,3 +51,6 @@
 [submodule "externals/zlib-ng-win"]
 	path = externals/zlib-ng-win
 	url = https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-zlib-ng-win.git
+[submodule "externals/sdl3"]
+	path = externals/sdl3
+	url = https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-SDL.git
diff --git a/externals/sdl3 b/externals/sdl3
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..495e432fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/sdl3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 495e432fb9776fdc13a8d96179136064ccddf6e5
diff --git a/third-party/CMakeLists.txt b/third-party/CMakeLists.txt
index 2c9f843fb..8acf2406f 100644
--- a/third-party/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/third-party/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ add_subdirectory(fmt EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 # MagicEnum
 add_subdirectory(magic_enum EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
-if(NOT ENABLE_QT_GUI)
-# SDL3
-add_subdirectory(SDL EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-endif()
-
 # Toml11
 add_subdirectory(toml11 EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
diff --git a/third-party/SDL b/third-party/SDL
deleted file mode 160000
index 27556e098..000000000
--- a/third-party/SDL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 27556e098ecce54014ed1fc11c1e974ffdf4bc93